Event overview
Digital Culture Unit Research Seminar (Centre for Cultural Studies)
Lorenzo Magnani “Eco-Cognitive Abduction” (Director of Computational Philosophy Laboratory, University of Pavia, Italy)
James Trafford “Logic, Dialectics, and Interactivity” (Senior Lecturer, Cultural Theory, UCA, Empson, UK)
Lorenzo Magnani is a Professor of Philosophy of Science at the University of Pavia, Italy, and the director of its Computational Philosophy Laboratory. His book Abduction, Reason, and Science (New York, 2001) has become a well-respected work in the field of human cognition. The book Morality in a Technological World (Cambridge, 2007) develops a philosophical and cognitive theory of the relationships between ethics and technology in a naturalistic perspective. The book Abductive Cognition. The Epistemological and Eco-Cognitive Dimensions of Hypothetical reasoning and the last monograph Understanding Violence. The Intertwining of Morality, Religion, and Violence: A Philosophical Stance have been more recently published by Springer, in 2009 and 2011. Since 1998, initially in collaboration with Nancy J. Nersessian and Paul Thagard, he created and promoted the MBR Conferences on Model-Based Reasoning. Since 2011 he is the editor of the Book Series Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics (SAPERE), Springer, Heidelberg/Berlin
Dr James Trafford is Senior Lecturer in cultural theory at UCA, Epsom. His work deals with issues relating to rationalism, non-standard logic and reconceptualizing formal language as a dynamic and creative practice. He has been published in numerous journals, gallery catalogues and design-books, and is currently working on a monograph on meaning, dialogue, and interactive logics.
For further information, contact Dr Luciana Parisi (l.parisi@gold.ac.uk)
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
|---|---|---|
| 26 Nov 2015 | 2:00pm - 5:00pm |
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